To:D. B. RYAZANOV

Written:Written on February 2, 1921Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeRyazanov:

Ihave a great request:

Returnthe
books.[1]|||||||

1) Do you, by any chance, knowwheretheunderscored passages inEngels’s letters
comefrom?

2)Hasthis ever been published in full andwhere?

3)Ifit has, can we find and get it?

4)Couldwebuythe letters of Marx and Engels, or
photographs of them, from Scheidemann & Co. (you know,
this dirty lot will sell anything)?

5)Isthere any hope of our collecting in Moscoweverythingpublished by Marx and Engels?

6)Isthere a catalogue ofeverything already collected
here?

7)Arewe collecting the letters of Marx and Engels, (or
copies of them) or is that impossible?

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]Theregister of outgoing documents, kept by Lenin’s secretaries,
had this entry: “2.II. No. 159. Two books by Engels and aletter to Ryazanov” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).